The Revenant Trailer: DiCaprio's Out For Revenge... And An Oscar

Could 2016 be his year?

By
Jacob Stolworthy

17/07/2015

The Departed; Django Unchained; The Wolf of Wall Street – the list of films Leonardo DiCaprio should have won an Oscar for continues. Not looking to be an addition to that list, however, is The Revenant – for which a trailer has just arrived.

Written and directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu – fresh from his very own Oscar win for Birdman – the film, set in the 1820s, follows Hugh Glass, a frontiersman seeking vengeance against the people who left him for dead after a bear mauling. The film, adapted from Michael Punke's 2003 novel, is based on true events.

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Tom Hardy co-stars as Glass' former partner while Will Poulter and Domhnall Glesson will also appear in as-of-yet unspecified roles.

The action-heavy trailer sees Iñárritu replicating the long takes he deployed in Birdman – only instead of Michael Keaton in his pants, this time around it'll be DiCaprio firing shotguns on horseback.